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Updated language in readme #48

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The word "dumb" is often meant as synonymous to "stupid", but was originally used to refer to people with speech impairments and is still offensive to people with speech impairments. See: http://www.autistichoya.com/p/ableist-words-and-terms-to-avoid.html

Also yes, I am Alex, and it's amusing that I caught and modified this file manually.

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wooorm commented Oct 7, 2015

Hahahah nice! I’m just doing some updates on alex (the other one). Thanks for the catch! 😆

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It was meant to be. 😉 Thanks for your work on this.

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wooorm commented Oct 7, 2015

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wooorm added a commit to retextjs/retext-equality that referenced this pull request Oct 7, 2015
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